I completely understand your thoughts on the faux exhaust pipes. I'm just playing with that and consider it silly but fun for the moment.
However with the dash I'm of a completely different mind. I created something that fit around my SimLab P1 vertical DD mount and in VR it is much easier to find controls that wrap around corners and that have lots of reference points. The magnetic labels work great and I love the layout. Everything comes to hand easily. I may change the design a bit over time. The rotaries are a bit to easy to knock in VR. I may end up printing something that they are recessed into a bit, but I can probably bolt that on to the existing design vs. having to reprint anything large.
Those flat rectangular button boxes to my eyes are completely worthless in VR and would be a bitch to navigate. Just another man's opinion, but I have something very similar to the controls in your link in my Virpil flight throttle and in VR most of those knobs and buttons are useless. They are too similar, don't have good boundaries for differentiation, and make no use of edges. Fortunately there are a LOT of controls on the flight stick and the throttle grip and they take care of my needs well.
So we have nearly diametrically opposed views on that.
As far as the tweaking settings for my wheel, motion and tactile go, I have deferred to others for SC 2 settings and NLRv3 settings. I'm also only in iRacing and Dirt Rally. iRacing has scores of settings by people who love playing with SC2 settings, even on a car by car basis. Some of these guys are crazy passionate about getting the wheel to feel just so. My copies of AC and ACC are collecting dust and I think that covers the vast majority of people on this forum.
While I've dabbled in tactile and like the effects I'm getting, I seriously doubt I will ever go into this deep enough to satisfy your passion for that aspect.
I think my passion is ergonomics, hence improved mouse position, button box, easier rolling casters, etc.. Many of the changes I made in terms of cabling and winding up and routing USB cables was to make the transition to flight mode easier. I moved a lot of hardware around while I did that and also allowed better placement of the flight pedals.
I still plan to fabricate a bit more aluminum to clean up the flight control attachment points, but I'm in no rush. It is getting pretty well polished now, but every time I think that there can't be anything else to do to it, I get an idea.